IifcmER GAZETTii:
EPPNE, OREGON.
THE SCHOOLS OF PUYALLUP.
Great Improvements Under Frof.
Dresbach's Management.
NEW GARDES AND NEW BUILDINGS.
A Coinolete Transformation Made in the
Manner and Method of Publio
School Instruction.
IYyallup, Oct. 27 ThePuyallup pub
lic school is nicely started in tliiB year's
work in the Cent ral school and two ward
buildings, employing nine teachers,
with an enrollment of 425 pupils, 47 of
whom are are working in the seventh,
eighth and ninth grades. The ninth
grade corresponds to the second year of
the high school work of cities. It is not
called a high school as yet, but the pro
fessor hopes to be able to graduate pupils
in a short time. The school presents a
vast degree of improvement in every way
from what it was two years ago. The
school at that time was ungraded and
consisted of about 210 pupils, with a
corps of four teachers for the first few
months of the year and three for the re
mainder j nothing higher than the sixth
grade being taught. The school build
ing then consisted of four rooms, heated
by stoves and a floorless basement, a
dilapidated dictionary, a primary chart,
a set of maps, with the blackboards,
constituted the working apparatus of the
school.
Last year the seventh and eighth
gi ades were added, a floor was put into
the basement and near the close of last
year a series of entertainments and lec
tures were given by the school to acquire
funds to purchase needed supplies for
the school, at which $182.80 was realized,
the expenses, $01.05, being taken from
this leaves a net profit of $120.85. About
this time J. A. Spencer donated a com
plete set of Chamber's Encyclopedia to
the school. This was the nucleus of
what was anticipated will be an elegant
library. The school board then put in
cases tor the labratory and books. Last
summer the Central school building had
a duplicate addition built on the east
side.
The building has now two fine covered
entrances connected by a broad hall run
ning through the center of the building
east and west, with two cloak rooms on
either side opening from the hall near
the entrance and so into its school room.
In the center of the hull are fhe four
doors opening directly into the four
rooms, numbered respectively!, 2, 3 and
4. Miss Nettie Zimmerman occupies
the first oi these in the northeast part of
the building with the first grade workers.
Miss Zimmerman's room showed plainly
during a visit made there that she is an
artist, as the blackboards were covered
with fine drawings. By the way, draw
ing is to be addeil this week to the Puy
allup schools with Miss Zimmerman as
teaolier. Miss Olive Grant occupies with
the second grade workers tho Bcond room
in the northwest part of the building.
Miss Winnie Hill shows much system in
iher third grade in No. 3. No. 4 is not
iurnished as yet, but as soon as the seats
arrive it will be put into use, as all the
rooms are full to overflowing, some sin
gle seats being occupied by two pupils.
The second story is a duplicate of the
first, with the exception of the space oc
cupied by the two cloak rooms down
stairs on the west side. This, with the
end of the hall, is made into a comfort
able room, which is fitted up for the
principal and is used as an office and a
recitation room. In this room will be
. found the two arithmetical charts which
have been purchased by the board at a
cost of $47. The laboratory, consisting
at present of a $125 set of philosophical
instruments, which was bought with an
appropriation from the board of $75 and
$60 Horn the proceeds of the entertain
ments ; also the library and a faithful
record of each pupil's work while in atr
tendance at this school from the date of
Prolessor Dresbach's entrance into the
.school a year ago up to the present time,
all oi which can be corroborated by the
examination papers, all of which are
kept on file.
So it is not dilDcult to classify each
pupil as he enters school this fall. Each
pupil upon entering school comes to this
office, his standing is ascertained, either
by the record or if a new pupil he is
examined, and then receives an entrance
card to the teacher of the grade which
he will enter, with the number of his
class and age designated, which is signed
by the parent and principal ; also a card
to be signed by his teacher specifying
the articles required to enter that par
ticular grade.
Passing from this room east through
the hall about midway are the four doors
numbered respectively 5, 6, 7 and 8,
leadinff into the four school rooms. Miss
Annie Lacy occupies the southwest
room, No. 5, with a part of third and
fourth grades. No. 6 is being furnished.
No. 7 is occupied by the fifth and sixth
grades, with Miss Addie Hubbard as ,
teacher. No. 8 seats the seventh, eighth
and ninth grades, under the watchful
eye of Mrs. Dresbach. The seventh and
eighth grades recite in this room, while
the ninth grade, which was added this
year, recites to Professor Dresbach in
his office.
The opposite end of the hall from the
" office forms an alcove which is used as
a cloak room. In the basement two huge
furnaces have been put in with their
proper appliances which heat the whole
building. On opposite sides of the base
ment are two large sinks with two fau
cets each, several closets with shelves
have been added which furnishes a neat
and safe place for all lunches, thus keep
ing the two stories above exclusively for
study. The bell rope hangs conveniently
near a clock, and is handy for the janitor,
who is constantly in attendance. The
benches scattered about the room pro
vides the rest of the basement furniture.
Strong wire screens cover the outside
basement windows and a plank walk
lead to the entrance. A very much bet
ter hell has been placed in this belfry,
the old one being relegated to one of the
ward schools.
A new ward school building has been
built in the Second ward, on Mason
street, where the first and second grades
are taught by Miss Frances Jacobs. Miss
Merrill teaches the first, second and
third grades in the Mclntire school
building.
The unexpended balance of the school
supply fund will be used in the purchase
of library books. The grading and
classifying of this school has been a very
difficult matter. The examination of
150 to 200 pupils who never attended
this school before, and coming from all
parts' of the country, ia no easy task ;
and to add to these difficulties a com
plete change of text books was ordered
bv the state board of education, and
without prescribing the grades.
The school board and the efficient
.corps of teachers, under the leadership
' of Professor Dresbach, deserves the
hearty co-operation and svmpalhy of all
Puvallup citizens, especially those inter
ested in any educational systems.
Fqb imw and battery-.
Hilton Sisters Bring Suit for as.eou
Damages Against Their Nephew,
j Fbanklin, Ky., Oct. 27 Misses El
' carine and Charity Hilton, the two old
maid sisters of Win. I. Hilton, the miser
who died here a year or two ago, and
who created a sensation by burning up
a lot of his money and bonds just before
he died, have each filed suit for $5,000
damages in the Simpson circuit court
against James L. Hilton, the only child
and heir of Wm. I. Hilton, for assault
and batterv. These two old women
have for years been members of the So
cietv of Shakers, but during the last ill
ness of their brother they came to wait
on him and to remain till his death, and
for their services they sued the adminis
trator of the Hilton estate and got judg
ment at the last term of court. They
were also the beneficiaries of the paper
purported to be the last will of Hilton.
However, his son, James L., hired at
torneys to fight the will and succeeded
in defeating the will in the county court,
but it was appealed to the circuit court,
but never came up for trial.
The matter was compromised by con
sent of the parties, Jas. L. agreeing that
the interest on $8,000 be paid to his two
aunts during their natural life, and at
his death the principal to go to him, he
also agreed to pay the attorneys' fees of
the lawyers for the will, Goodnight,
Bush & Roork, amounting to $3,000.
This last suit against Jim will probably
end the Hilton litigation.
BRAZIL'S FUTURE.
Dom Pedro May Be Allowed to Beturn
to That Cout-try.
Washington City, Oct. 27 Minister
Valente Bpeaks with genuine enthusi
asm of the political situation in Brazil.
At the election for members of congress,
held September 15th, not a monarchist
was returned to either branch of the na
tional legislature, and'a great majority
of those elected are strong supporters of
the present provisional government.
This means the continuence in power of
President Ponseka, although he is un
derstood not to desire a re-election.
Minister Valente also says that it is
not improbable that Dom l'edro will re
turn to Brazil and spend the remainder
of his days among his former country
men. Should he express this wish the
Brazilian congress will no doubt consent,
and the government will place at his
disposal one of the finest ships of war in
which the journey may be made.
There is no fear that the ex-em peror's
return will encourage any idea of resto
ration. There is no nionaichial party
worthy of the name left in Brazil, and if
there were, Dom Pedro would not he a
passive instrument in partisan hands.
What he desires is to pass the evening
of his days as a plain citizen of the re
public, lie would not, according to Va
lente, accept the crown again if it was
tendered to him.
BUSINESS 18 . IMPROVING.
So Says B. O. Dun & Co.'s Weekly Re
view of Trado.
Nkw Youk, Oct. 27 R. G. Dun &
Co.'s weekly review of trade says:
"In all directions the business outlook
improves, and the volume of trade so in
creases that, notwithstanding the recent
enormous increase of circulation, the
money markets are growing stringent,
exports have become remarkably large,
and the domestic trade is such that ex
changes outside of New York exceed last
year's bv 15 per cent. But while New
York and Boston money markets are
fairly supplied and steady at 5 to 6 per
cent, the market is tight at Chicago and
stringent at Philadelphia, only part ol
the commercial paper offered being taken
at 6 to 7 per cent. ; St. Louis notes an
active market at 7 to 8 per cent I Mil
waukee a close market at 7, and Savan
nah a tight market. Hut at Cleveland
and Detroit the markets are rather eas
ier, at Kansas City firm, at Denver a
good demand is well supplied. At
Omaha the market is easy, and at Pitts
burg there is a good demand without
stringency. Trade is strong every
where." FBANOE GETTING EVEN.
A New Tariff Bill Presented, Direoted
Against This Country.
Paris, Oct. 27 A new tariff bill was is
sued to the chamber of deputies Satur
day. It refers to the high tariff of the Unit
ed States,Canada and the South American
states, and proposes the following duties
per 100 kilos; Wheat, 5 francs; flour, 8
francs; corn, 3 francs; cornmeal, 5
francs; salt pork, 12 francs. The duty
on petroleum has not been fixed, pend
ing a decision of the proposals of the
budget commission.
In regard to cattle, tne duty nencetortn
will be levied bv weight instead of by
head. Cocoons and thrown silk will pay
duty. Raw silk will be free. Wool,
raw cotton, flax, hemp, fleeces, hides
and jute are exempted from payment of
duty. The duty on eggs, butter, oils,
foreign wines and textile fabrics are in
creased. The duties on coal and chemi
cal products remain as at present, but
the tariff on metals has been revised, the
duty being lowered.
A SIN OLE-KAIL BO AD.
Company Incorporated in Oregon to De
velop a Great Invention.
Union, Or., Oct. 27 A new railroad
company has been incorporated here
with a capital stock of $000,000 ; incor
porators, J. B. Mahanna, J. W. Shelton,
E. S. McComae, S. O. Swackhammer
and L. J. Davis. The objects are to
build, equip and operate railroads on an
entirely new system, as invented by Mr.
Mahana. The new company is known
as a single-rail and saddle-car company.
The new system can be operated either
by steam or electricity, and contains a
principle which it is thought will cause
a revoiuuuu in ramuui.uuK.
THE STOCK MARKETS.
Bultng Prices on the Frinoipal
Ex-
changes of the World.
Liverpool, Oct. 27 Wheat, firmly
held; California spot, 7s 4d7s 6d;
just shipped, 57s 8d ; nearly due, 37s 9d ;
consols, 94 1-1(B94 13-10; silver, 48,';
rentes, 94 francs, 30 centimes.
New Yokk, Oct. 27 United States
bonds, 4s, 121; 4j-s, VHV; sterling,
$4.82itt$4.86 ; Pacific Mail, .41';
Northwestern. 1075 : New York Cen
tral, 101; Erie, 2ll4; Northern Pacific
preferred, 73J.J ; Union Pacific, 4T,' ;
Missouri Pacific, 08 ; Chicago, Burling
ton & Quincy, 90-
MIZNEB JUSTIFIED.
Blaine and the President Justify the
Minister's Course.
Washington City, Oct. 2 It is un
derstood that Mr. Mizner, our minister
to Central America, has received from
Secretary Blaine assurances of approval
of the president of his course in the Bar
rundia case, and has been fully justified
in the course he has pursued.
itHE L AT E LONDON HORROR.
Woman Charged With
Crime Arrested.
the
NOT JACK THE RIPPER THIS TIME.
The Mistress of the Victim's Husband
Said to Have Committed the
Terrible Deed.
London, Oct. 27 Nellie Piercy, the
woman arrested on suspicon of having
murdered Mrs. Hobbs, whose body was
found fearfully mutilated in a remote
part of South Hamstead Friday night
last, was brought before the police court
at South Hamstead this morning for a
preliminary examination.
Hobbs, the husband of the murdered
woman, was placed upon the stand, anil,
during the rigorous examination which
followed, admitted the existence of a lia
son between the prisoner, Nellie Piercy
aud himself. It was brought out in
testimony that Hobbs possessed a latch
key to the woman's house. Witness ad
mitted that his visits to his mistress'
house had been quite frequent and that
he had no suspicion of his wife's knowl
edge of his criminal relations with the
prisoner.
Evidence was given by the police and
others who visited the reidunre of the
woman Piercy, which showed that a ter
rible fight must have taken place in the
kitchen between the infuriated women.
Windows were smashed, furniture splash
ed with blood, and the weapons used in
the awful Btruggle were found with clots
of blood and locks of hair adhering to
them.
It was also shown that after the com
mittance of the crime an attempt had
been made to remove the blood stains.
Paraffine had been employed to destroy
traces of the conibal.
WANTED TO HABHV AGAIN.
A South Dakota Farmer's Wife Made
Herself a Widow.
Wconsocket, S. D., Oct. 27 Mrs.
Elizabeth Kearick lies in jail here on a
charge of murdering her husband. Three
months ago Charles Kearick married
Mies Elizabeth Baudot and the couple
went to live on a farm four miles north
of here. Last Saturday the wife came
to town and purchased a bottle of strych
nine on the plea that she. wanted it for
the extermination of rats. A portion of
this she placed in her husbamPs milk
this morning, and he became violently
ill, dying before medical aid could reach
him.
The body of the dead man was brought
here, and the autopsy showed that his
death resulted from strychnine poison
ing. Mrs. Rearing has been weeping
constantly since she was placed in jail
and refused to talk. Neighboring farm
ers say that she recently received a let
ter from an old lover in Wisconsin, and
they thought she was paving the way to
marry him.
, SUNDAY FATALITIES.
New York Hunters Meet Death and In
jury'While Coon Hunting.
Auburn, N. Y., Oct. 27 Early Sunday
morning, while hunting for coons near
Cascade, a party of young men from Au
burn treed a coon and proceeded to chop
down the tree. Before the hunters were
aware of their danger the tree toppled
over and three of them were struck by
falling branches. William Dunn, 20
years of age, was killed outright, a large
limb crushing his skull. ... The other two
escaped with severe bruises and a few
broken bones.
About the same hour another party of
Auburn men were hunting for coons on
the hills west of Maravia when Michael
Kelly lost his footing and was precipi
tated down a steep incline, accompanied
by his beagle hound. The thick under
brush broke the force of his fall, but he
did not stop rolling until he reached the
bottom of the hill, 75 feet below. With
the exception of a bruised knee he was
not injured, but the dog's neck was
broken.
CANADA ALARMED. 4
Suspioious of the Oreat Increase in Our
Navy.
Halifax, Oct. 27 The government or
gan, the Herald, says editorially:
"The . extraordinary activity the
United States is showing in the work of
constructing a navy, at an enormous cost
to the federal treasury, is watched with
great interest in Great Britain, and the
recent statement in a Boston newspaper
of tiie objects which have so stimulated
the ambition ol our republican neign
bor will not tend to allay the suspicions
which have already lieen excited.
'The naval disnlav which was made
for the Durnose of inducing Canada to
vicld our undoubted rights in the Atlan
tic and Behnng Bea fisheries to the
United States will serve as a warning to
Canadians tl at the time has come for a
closer defensive and offensive alliance
with the mother country if we are to
maintain not only our self respect but
our rights and interests on tins conti
nent."
BAD BOLD INDIANS.
Getting Beady For an Outbreak in Cali
forniaUneasiness Felt.
Port Bidwell, Cal., Oct. 27 Since the
abandonment of the military post here
the Indians have become very bold. In
several sparsely settled valleys adjacent
to this place settlers' cabins have been
broken open by Indians during the ab
sence of their owners. Their actions of
late in laying in arms and amunition and
trying to borrow guns of the settlers for
purpose of seeing how well equipped the
settlers are with fire-arms have alarmed
the settlers, as this is the same method
J they resorted to before making an out
break in 1878.
Three hundred tons of hay w ere burned
in Warner Valley a few nights ago and
it is thought by many to be an act of
the Indians.
AGAINST CAPITAL PUNISHMENT.
Oen. Curtis Will Present His Bill Again
to the New York Legislature.
New Yobk, Oct. 27 General Curtis,
father of the bill to abolish capital pun
ishment in this state, says he is going to
introduce the bill again during the com
ing session of the legislature at Albany.
"I asked for the passage of the hill on
practical erounds. he says, "as I con
sider that it will be for the good of so
ciety. I would send a convicted mur
derer no for life, taking away the par
doning power and making the convict
work for the good of the state during hie
natural life. There is no maudlin Bym
nathv behind mv bill, nor have the
Westinghou8e people anything to do
with it, as has been charged. Instates
where capital punishment has been
abolished Michigan, Rhode Island and
Wisconsin murder ve decreased,; 1
while in New York stale the rate is 8 A
per cent, higher. j
A RAILWAY
ABSORBED.
The Atchison Seoures ft Colorado Mid
land System.
Boston, Mass., Oct. 87 The Atchison
railroad directors met Saturday at the
office of the company in Boston and the
proposed acquisition ot the Colorado
Midland railroad was freely considered
and approved. The contract of purchase
was agreed to. The basis ot agree
ment is that the Colorado Midland stock
is to be placed at a valuation of 50 and
Atchison at 45.- The Colorado Midland
stock consists of 80,000 shares. This re
quires 88,890 of Atchison stock to be
issued to absorb tne enure issue ui me
Midland.
Tun cash navinente are provided for
as follows: $10" for each share of Color
ado Midland stock at the time of its de-
nosit with the trustees, and iflO per
shave at any time within a year. The
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Atchison issue OI StOCK wm uc uevuieu
to carrying out the contract for exchange
of stock and to provide for cash pay
ments. The present capital stock ot tne
Atchison company is $10.',000,000.
Of the Atchison Btock required to com
plete the transaction, the Atchison com
pany already has 10,553 shares of its ex
stiiie issues. The new issue of stock
required consists of 45,300 shares, or 4,
550,000, thus making the entire issue of
550,000, thus makinz tne enure is
capital stock of the, Atchison con
after the acquisition..; ,jYMidlan
panv is completed, $l,0l.Vri 0,000.
ompany
nd com
TliB I'nlnrado Midlund.railwav. ex
tends from Colorado SnjptW to Leadville
with brunches to Aspen a-vd Jerome Park
coal fieldH at Spring G ifeh, Colorado.
It owns 28,770 miles of standard gauge
main tracks and 3708 miles of switches
and side tracks.
The road also leases 2005 miles of main
track and 319 of sidings, all laid with
steel rails. Besides its local importance,
it forms part of the through line be
tween Colorado Springs and Denver on
the Atchison and Salt Lake City, Ogden
and other important places.
A BIG FIRE IN MOBILE.
Several Buildings, Wharves and Vessels
Destroyed.
Moiiile, Ala., Oct. 27 One of the most
disastrous conflagrations ever witnessed
in this city began yesterday about noon
in Stewart Butt's shingle mill, and was
not under control for five hours, and
then only after a favorable change of the
wind. The fire department and volun
teers worked with the utmost vigor.
Three river steamers, one ocean-going
ship going to the Mobile & Ohio railroad
wharf, cottonseed oil mills, eight ware
houses, three cotton compresses, with
probably 10,000 bales of cotton, a big ice
factory, a box factory , and some large
coal sheds were destroxed. In fact, the
buildings hounding the river, from
Knox street, on South Seventh street,
and from the river front to Royal street
west, were burned out.
Losses will reach probably $750,000,
with insurance of $400,000. There wae
no loss of life, alshough many firemen
were overcome with the heat and smoke,
and had narrow escapes from falling
walls.
The alarm of fire at Stewart & Butts'
mill had scarcely come in when a second
alarm was sounded from a burning resi
dence belonging to Mosley Tucker, on
Dauphin, near Broad, which was com
pletely burned. The residence adjoining
was also destroyed.
Two alarms being followed by a gen
eral alarm caused tha greatest excite
ment among all classes, and soon a re
port was Bpread that the entire business
portion of the city was in danger, and
thousands of men. women and children
rushed to the scene. No one felt safe,U
even in the business portion of the citypiper cent, since lasu couici not easily pe
and wnfform, dray anQ it'll Hn
.1(Jb -rrt vu-
hides were engaged m carrying away
the valuables of the people. More than
20 squares were burned. The tracks of
all railroads ceutering here have been
obstructed by debris in the burnt district
and trains are delayed.
DEMOCBATS AT SEDBO
Listen to an Address by the Hon. Fort-
land C. Hunt.
SiibKO, Oct. 27 Hon. Portland C.
Hunt, the democratic orator, addressed
a large and appreciative audience here
Saturday night. The republicans, who
had also arranged for a meeting at the
same time, listened to their speakers in
a separate hall, they refusing to accept a
challenge to a joint debate which Mr.
Hunt sent them immediately upon his
arrival in the city; and it was indeed
fortunate for them that they did refuse
and thus escape Mr. Hunt's unanswer
able arraignment of the republican
party.
He reviewed the reckless rulings of
Speaker Reed, the most objectionable
features of the McKinley bill, the Force
bill and other lawless legislation of the
present republican house, which he de-
claied w ould be long remembered by the
American people as one of the most
reckless congresses in the history of this
republic.
He also spoke at length of the many
merits of the Hon. Thomas Carroll,
democratic candidate for congress, who
he said was entitled, if party ties did not
prevent it, to every vote in the state of
Washington. Brief buf brilliant remarks
were also made by the ever-popular
Wiley E. Jones, of Anacortes, and Judge
Hill, ot wnatcoin.
NEGBO" COLONIZATION.
North Carolina Negro Miners to be Sent
Into West Virginia.
Cuaki.kton. W.Va., Oct. 27 The
Black Diamond Coal Company has given
notice to 40 white miners and their
families that they must vacate the cabins
occupied by them, and belonging to the
company, on short notice.
A lli'trro tfftlltf OOS8 iroill lol 111 vttiu
Una has been inspecting the, cabins and
tr,l,1 tl.B white men that 40 negroes had
been contracted for and were to take tne
places of the white men in tneir Homes
an,l in Hir mines. The white men de
dare they will not be driven out by the
negroes. This is evidently a sinner ui
the l arrvinu out of the plan ot uuay
Dudley,, Lindsey and others, to colonize
the state with negroes from North Caro
lina.
A CONSUL BEJECTED.
Austria Will Not Beoelve Blaok Because
He is a Hebrew.
Vienna, Oct. 27 Count Kalnoky re
fuses the exequatur to the new United
Ststes consul at Buda Pesth, Joseph
Black, a Hungarian Hebrew, who lived
some time in Philadelphia. He was re
called from the Bame position in 1885,
owing to representations made to the
foreign office, and his reappointment
caused great indignation.
A Stay of Prooeedmgs Befused.
New Yokk, Oct. 27 Judge Barrett, of
the supreme court, has refused to
urant a stay of proceedings pending an
appeal in the case of Dr. Henry Mc-
Donald, convicted of killing
, Goodwin by malpractice.
NEW CENSUS PROBABLE.
Congress May Order an Entire
National Recount.
PRESENT FIGURES
NOT ACCURATE.
The Total for the Whole Country Only
Foots Uo to 02,000,000-Too
Hastily Done.
Washington City, Oct. 27 It is not at
all beyond the bounds of probability that
an entirely new enumeration of the pop
ulation of the I'nited States may be
made during the coming winter under a
special act of congress. The manufac
turing, mining and other industrial sta
tistics collected by the present census
management will be allowed to stand, as
they are generally known to have ap
proximate accuracy, and because they
are valuable only for speculative or phil
osophical purposes and it is doubtful if
anything could be gained by making
them absolutely correct even if that
were possible. But with population the
ca e is different. In the complete exact
ness ol the census of the population de
pends the rightful representation of the
people in congress and in the electoral
college for the choice of the president of
the nation.
Conservative democrats do not charge
Mr. Porter with permitting or counte
nancing frauds with the object of dimin
ishing the apparent population in demo
cratic localities or increasing the repre
sentation in republican communities.
They simply point out that the enumer
ation was too hastily made by incompe
tent persons, that it is axiomatically
erroneous and untrustworthy, and that
honest government cannot be based up
on its results.
From the schedules completed at. the
census office today the officials calculate
that the total population of the country
will not exceed 02,000,000. These are
almost final figures for the big summa
tion will be finished next week, and the
official announcement is only awaiting
Superintendent Porter's arrival in this
city. The work is practically ended now,
the returns have all been tabulated and
hitf a fmv Hi'heilnles from nubli" institu
tions remain to be included in the count.
In round numbers, though the figure
may fall a few thousands lower than the
population for 1890, is placed at 02,000,
J00, an increase of 11,870,880, or 23.08
per cent., in the decade since 188j.
From the apparent increase found by
Mr.' Porter, 11,870,880, deduct the 5,242,
530 immigrants landed on our coasts
since 1S80 and we find that the natural
increase was but (1,050,000, or about
13.23 per cent. Thifl rate of natural in
crease is so irrationally small when com
nared with the rates of previous decades
as to confirm the general belief in the
defectiveness of the census taking in
1800. The rates of natural increase
shown bv the censuses of previous years
were as follows:
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1S1I) .
1820...
ISM. .
pi'r rent.
. . Iiri.lHi per eent.
Hl.lil per eent.
. . .Jl'J.Ort per eent.
lssn...
1 1SIMI...
I 1S70 .,
watt...
io .
.'J5.IH1 per cell!.
.i4.-lli pur ('.out.
..ll.su pir 'cent.
..'J'i.VS vicr cuul.
,l;t.'2;i pit runt.
1810..
..'JS.U2 per cent.
The percentage of 1870 was undoubt
edly affected by the destruction of life
and diminution of relative natural in
crease during the period of civil war.
That, during the 10 years of luxurious
peace and vaunted prosperity from 1880
to 1890, the natural increase in the
population of the United States has
been but 13.23 per cent, is more than
incredible: it is simply Billy. A real
falling off of from 22.78 per cent, to 13.23
.iL.i.uuiiiir'i .......
might, perhaps, arceiit the figures an
see in them proof that the war tariff is
rushing the lite out ot a people, lliey
night argue that a tux raising the price
of commodities 47 per cent, tends to
make it difficult for the poor to marrv,
and thus inevitably compels us to look
to foreign immigration lor a large pro
portion of our increase in numbers. But
the easiest explanation and by far the
most plausible one is that the present
census is worthless.
Conservative republicans on every
hand are outspoken in their :inion
that nothing should be sp ired to insure
the accuracy ol the count Ixiiore tlie
figures are made use of in the reappor
tioning the representation of the people
in the house ot representatives, several
of tham have given assurances to promi
nent democrats that tliey will support a
measure at the opening of the coming
session, providing for a new enumeration
of the population, anu it is bencvo;i mat
none of the republican leaders will dare
to oppose an effort to insure simple hon
esty in the count no matter how they
gerrymander the country after the fig
ures are obtained.
The idea is to have Superintendent
Porter make the new enumeration, but
to give him time enough to do it accu
rately, instead of rushing hurriedly
through it in fifteen days, the time spec
ified in the recent act. His office is pre
sumed to be better organized than it was
in June last, and it is confidently pre-
dieted that he can easily obtain results
with his trained forces which will be
received with general satisfaction. It is
proposed to pass a bill authorizing linn
to make a recount of the whole country,
and appropriating $3,000,000 for that
nurnose. This Dill. It is untieimooti,
will be introduced by a republican lead
er.
JACK THE EIPPEH.
Another Sensational Murder in the
Streets of London.
London, Oct. 27 The condition of the
body of the woman found at Southamp
ton indicates that her murder was the
most fiendish of any that has occurred
in England since Jack the Kipper's hor
rible Whitechapel series. The charac
ter of the wounds clearly establish the
fact that the woman was stabbed by
some one behind her, after which the
body was hacked and slashed almost
into pieces.
The scene of the crime is in a lonely
part of the section, freiiuented by the
lowestclass of abandonded women. It
is supposed to be frequently patrolled by
the police, but the constables tbemsevles
admit that they perforin that duty with
feelings of trepidation, and suspicion
arises that their visits are not as often
made as thev ought to be.
The belief is general that the murder
is the work of the "Kipper," who has
changed the scene of his crimes in order
to baffle the police. The police are
tracking a man who was Been to enter a
Hansom cab near tne place wnere me
body was found and drive away at a
furious pace and are confident that they
will yet run him down. The inhabitants
in the vicinity of the murder are in
tensely excited over the murder and
remain indoors as much as possible.
new light on the cihme.
Thimim. Oct. 27 A medical expert
who made a careful examination of the
(body of the woman found recently
murdered in an obscure alley of a re-
mote neighborhood in South Hempstead,
says the murder was committed in a
manner not characteristic of "Jack the
Ripper," and also negatives the sugges
tion that the victim was of the class
which has thus far furnished the "Rip
per's" prey.
The body is that of a woman appar-1
ontlv ol,f HO f !..,! 1
material the texture of which indicated
the wearer to have been a person of some
refinement. The underclothingwas found
to be marked, a fact upon which the
police place great stress as furnishing a
clue to the discovery of the murder.
When the body was found it was seen
thnt the woman's throat had been
cut and the skull fractured. The pockets
were empty. Near the body the police
found an empty trunk containing a
blood-stained fur rug. The officers sur
mise that it was used to carry the body
of the victim from the place where the
murder was committed to the point
where it was found.
MEMORIAL W1NDO WBROKEN.
One of the Most Beautiful and Costly in
the Country Destroyed.
Sacramento, Oct. 25 Friday after
noon some unknown person hurled two
stones through the Leland Stanford, jr.,
memorial window, the gift oi Mrs. Stan
ford, just completed in St. Paul's Episco
pal church, in this city. The window is
one of the most beautiful in America,
and was to have been unveiled yester
day with special services. Mr. Million,
the artist, was standing near by when
the first stone went through the window,
and he saw a second stone come from the
opening over the door of a barn opposite
the church. The building was at once
surrounded, but the guilty person es
caped. The injury can be replaced, but
it will take some weeks.
Leaving San Franoisoo.
San Francisco, Oct. 27 Passengers
sailing on the City of Puebla today are:
Victoria Mis. Trapp, Mrs. Spencer,
Mrs. P. Cowan, C. L. Lindquist.
Seattle Mrs. Paxton and one child;
F. B. Moore, wife and mother; Miss
Bertha Kosenbauni, Mrs. Hriggs, C. Gal
lagher, Mrs. White, J. M. Newell, Mrs.
McAllister, W. 11. Muhoney, A. W.
Thompson, S. Levy, Ella Johnson, Ellen
Johnson, Albert "H. Heath, Miss L.
Kitching.
Tacoma J. T. Ellsworth, Mrs. A. Rat
trace. Mrs. A. N. Salnson, J. M. Hall
and wifo.
Port Townsend W. W. Bruce, II. J.
Ellis, K. Natheson, Mrs. Naaheson, Miss
Chip Chase, Kena Natheson, F. Selby
and wife.
OENERAL TELEOBAPHIO NEWS.
The German press makes the wannest
reference to Von Moltke.
Sir Charles Pearson has been appointed
solicitor-general of Scotland.
There was a slight fall of snow
throughout England yesterday.
The union steam fitters employed in
Chicago will strike for increased wages.
Dr. Herman Adler will be definitely
installed as chief rabbi in London next
month.
Tho Italian government is causing an
inspection to be made of convents
throughout the kingdom.
It is estimated iu Spain that the Cuban
revenue will bo reduced one-fourth, ow
ing indirectly to the American tariff.
Ex-Governor Noble of Wisconsin, who
was stricken with paralysis several days
ago, died in New York yesterday,
aged 70.
A furniture wagon was struck by a
freight train on a crossing near Brooklyn
last night. Two men were killed and
one fatally injured.
Burchell writes a letter saying that
the statement published in a Toronto
laper Mvat week purporting to conic Irom
inn are iitieny inise.
At Scranton, Pa., yesterday. Andro
I'edito, a Pole, had nn ax driven into his
skull iu a race tight between llunnan-
ans and Poles. Jle will die. Several
others were wounded. '
At liallina, county Mayo, Saturday,
Balfour had a conference with the Cath
olic bishop of Villalea, in the presence
ot a number ot priests, on the condition
of affairs in that district.
The Swiss elections have not changed
party strength in the national council.
The national plebcscito shows a large
majority in lavor ot stale insurance
against accident and illness.
Australia is preparing to semi an ex
pedition to the south polo under com
mand of Barons Nordenskjold and Dick
son, wl.o offered to organize tho expedi
tion and bear purl of the cost.
At Temple, Tex., 280,000 gallons of
water, coulined in n steel standpipo, was
released by tho breaking of the pipe yes
terday morning. Several houses were
destroyed and great damage done to the
streets.
At New Orleans, yesterday, It, (1.
Betts made twenty-live and fifty mile
records nn the safety wheel. Twenty
live milcB were covered in I hour, 32
minutes and 11 seconds, and fifty miles
in 3 hours, 12 minutes and 41 seconds,
The whaling Bchooner Alton, which
arrived at San Francisco from the Arctic
ocean last night, reports the wreck of
the whaler Silver Wave off Franklin
Ket urn reef. I he crew anil cargo were
saved, but the vessel will probably lie a
total loss.
A kicking horse accidentally discharged
a trim in a wagon in wiucu Leopold uio-
vanni and a friend were riding yester
day, near Agnews, Cal. Giovanni ro
ceivedthe load in the left, shoulder, mak
ins a hole nine inches broad. His
chances of recovery are doubtful.
At Ottawa there is a report in circula
tion that the government will commute
the sentence of Burchell to life impri
sonment. No confirmation of the report
can be obtained, however, and olliciali
in liiirh authority, who were seen regard-
intf it. think the law will be allowed to
take its course.
Gerald W. ErMkine Loder, conserva
tive member of the English house of
commons for Brighton, was yesterday
married to the daughter of the Duke of
St. Albans. Among the guests present
at the wedding breakfast was the Prince
of Wales, who delivered a short and
graceful speech.
WABBINOTON STATE NEWS.
Much of the surrounding couutry has
beenflooded by the overllowiug of the
Nooksack river.
The AnacorUis American reports the
return of sea gulls after their summer
outing in Alaska.
Centralis people aro holding muss
meetings to devise means of ridding the
town of the tramp nuisance.
Farley Johnson shot a cougar near
Bucoda last week. Although badly
wounded the animal escaped in the
brush.
A wood-working factory has been lo
cated at Orting and an electric light
plant and a furniture factory are said to
lie among the coming industrial addi
tions to that town.
Trout fishing is now being much in
dulged in by sportsmen in the streams
of Whatcom county.
A NORTHERN PACIFIC WRECK.
Serious Accident to . the East
Bound Train.
A TACOMA LADY BADLY IHJCREB.
The Breaking of an Axle Causes the De
railment of Several Cars and
a Bad Smashup.
Noarn Yakima, Oct. 29 A wreck oe-
curred about 8S miles east of her at
1 :30 o'clock this morning.
Passenger train No. 2 eastbound. con
sisting of one mail, one baggage, on
emigrant sleeper, one touriBt sleeper, a
smoker, a first-class passenger car, a
dining car, and four Pullman sleepers,
two of which were specially chartered for
the Olympia excursion to the Spokane
etposition, were part of the train.
The engine, mail, baggage, tourist and
emigrant sleeper, smoker and one first
class passenger were wrecked, the four
Pullman's and dining car remaining on
the track untouched. The baggage,
tourist sleeper und and emigrant sleeper
were ditched and badly broken up.
Three persons received serious in
juries. Mrs. Walter Bates, of Tacoma,
who occupied a section in the tourist
sleeper at the time of the wreck, was
thrown out of her bunk and received
bad cuts about the head, forehead, face
and hip. She remained unconscious for
15 minutes. Her injuries are serious.
She is a widow lady, and has a daughter
and son living in Tacoma.
George Noble, the express messenger,
was in the baggage car at the time the
wreck occurred. When his car was
ditched the large express safe, weighing
500 pounds, fell on his left arm, crushing
and breaking it. He also sustained se
vere bruises about the face. He was
picked up and carried into a sleeper.
J.T. Rowe, a passenger on the emi
grant car, had his leg broken.
A freight train left North Yakima
about 15 minutes after the train was
wrecked, consequently it caught up
with the train soon after it was wrecked.
The freight train steamed back to North
Yakima and reported the accident. The
engine of the freight train then went
back after the cars of the passenger train
that ere not wrecked and brought
them to North Yakima with the wound
ed aboard.
Dr. Higgs, the company's phj-siciaa,
cared for and dressed the wounds of the
injured passengers.
At the time the wreck occurred the
train was running at the rate of 40 miles
an hour. It w as behind time and try
ing to make up for lost time. Fully 300
feet of the track were torn up.
The cause of the w reck was the break
ing of the axle on the tender, which
loosened the wheels and threw them
back on the track, thereby derailipg the
cars.
The wreck occurred where the track
runs through Daniel Fisher s orchard,
near old Yakima.
Division Superintendent Prowell took
a force of 40 mon on a wrecking train to
clear away the wreck, it is expected
he will build a track around the wreck.
finish it and have trains running this
afternoon.
Pasco, Oct. 29, 3 p. m A temporary
track was built around the wreck at
North Yakima by a large force of men.
The baggage car was tipped over and the
baggage transferred.
Two tourist cars were stove into each
other and the cars slid off the trucks.
All are in a confused niasB, while the
tender and engine are completely de
molished. The tracks bear wheel marks of the
cars showing that the train run 900 feet
after it was derailed. The ties are broken
all along the way.
The Olympia excursionists left North
Yakima at 11 o'clock and are now on the
way to Spokane F'alls."
HOPE FOB AMERICAN POBK.
France May Remove the Prohibitory
Measures Regarding Its Importation.
Pakis, Oct. 28 The excitement over
the passage of the McKinley bill la grad
ually subsiding, as the public is begin
ning to discover, at least so far as Franc
is concerned, that the consequence will
not be vorv terrible. The leading
French products which will b affected
are wool aud champagne.
Mr. Kuid is convinced that the govern
ment sincerely desired to abolish the
prohibition against the importation of
American pork as soon as a convenient
opportunity could be found, but, unfor
tunately, tne public opinion was arousea
by the press. Now that tne American
government has ordored the inspection
of all pork previous to its exixirtation,
lie is oi opinion tnattnerescinuingoi tne
prohibition will lie an event of the near
future. As this, if it should occur, will
havo been mainly brought about by
Minister Heid's influence, it is hoped
that if he is returned he will be able to
secure for F'rench exporters certain con
cessions regarding the duties on win
and works of art.
COMINO BOYAL WHDDIN8.
Victoria and Adolphus Will Marry Wo
vember 20th.
London, Oct. 20 The wedding of Prim
ness Victoria of Prussia to Adolphus of
Schaiimburg-Lippe, will take place ia
Berlin, November 20, in the chapel royal
of Schloss. The Prince anil Princess of
Wales, the Duke and Duchess of Con
naught, the Prince and Princess Chris
tiana, who havo already arrived in Ber
lin, where they are the guests of Em
press Frederick, will all be present at
the ceremony. The Russian Imperial
family will be represented by Grand
Duke and Grand Duchess Sergo and
Princess Elizabeth of Hesse-Darmstadt,
and the royal family of Greece by
the Duke and Duchess of Sparta. Em
peror William himself is arranging
programme of wedding fetes, which ar
to lie on a scale of extraordinary magni
ficence. The newly married couple are
to pass the honeymoon at I'ottsdam,
and early in January will take up their
residence at Bonn.
Remarkable Cave Discovered.
Galena, III., Oct. 29 A remarkable
cave was discovered by a party of hunt
eas yesterday afternoon near Pilot Knob,
about four miles from this, city. Tb
cave was partially explored, the hunters
traversing a distance of a half tnile or
more. Vaulted rooms, lined from top to
bottom with stalactites and other beauti
ful geological formations, a lake of solid
ice, a beautiful rivulet of crystal water, a
room with sides and roof covered with
glistening cubes of mineral, and unmis
takable ovidences of a former occupancy"
by a prehistoric race of this subterra
nean wonder were some of the sight!
which revealed themselves.